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For the Club - 6/25/2002 19:03:25
Now it' s your turn.
I' ve been doing a lot of critiques, now I' m ready to take what you can throw at me.
The Sun City Anthem Computer Club is a member of the Association of PC Users Group. The Association is running a contest for the best Club web site. Out site has been around for a while, and is primarily directed towards the over 55 age group. Others are persona non grata.
I would appreciate your comments on improvement. The only change that I will not make is the use of Themes. All else is open!
The site URL is: http://www.myscacc.org
I look forward to your comments.
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RE: For the Club - 6/25/2002 23:38:14
Looks good to me Charles
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RE: For the Club - 6/26/2002 1:17:49
Newsletters worked well on this end.
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RE: For the Club - 6/26/2002 13:09:35
I think it looks good. The newsletter opened fine for me.
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RE: For the Club - 6/26/2002 18:05:33
Charles,
You have lots and lots of good information and you managed it very well. The site is quite appropriate for your audience. I can tell you have done a lot of work.
I couldn' t open the newsletters. I didn' t get an error just the placement icon in the upper left hand corner. I just installed Adobe Acrobat 5.0. Would that make a difference?
I just checked my own web site and I got the same thing. Mmmm. Maybe something is wrong with my Adobe Acrobat.
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RE: For the Club - 6/26/2002 22:23:59
Terry,
I created the PTF from MS Publisher with Acrobat 4.0' s Distiller. However, I do use Acrobat Reader 5.0 for reading (occasionally, since Acrobat 4.0 is my default for opening from the Internet). Was there a specific newsletter that wouldn' t open, or was it all of them?
Mike,
Remember, my original post was that the themes were off limits to you folks. The reason is, that all folks that would be working on this site in the future will be volunteers. I believe that I can teach another person to take over much easier with the themes.
All of the rest of you,
Thanks
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RE: For the Club - 6/27/2002 7:10:52
One comment on themes - even though I know it is of limits!!
You canuse themes and have, therefore, the ease of use you want for multiple users, without having to stick to the themes that ship with FrontPage.
I think this is a really good site, with lots of carefully provided information that targets an audience it knows and understands very well. However my first impression of it is ' Oops! One of those horrible FP themes!" I am sorry, but that was what it genuinely was.
It is very easy to edit your theme so that you do not use the default graphics and so on that are so quickly recognisable and so hackneyed.
The fact that you have used a theme means that changing the entire site is just a matter of changing the images in your theme and I really think it would be so worth doing.
To edit a theme just right click any page, select Theme and then the modify button on the bottom of the themes dialogue box. You can them modify all or any of the colors and/or graphics in the theme very easily.
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RE: For the Club - 6/27/2002 10:31:17
Chuck,
Newsletter opened fine for me.
I think the site is setup well. I also liked your links.
I would agree with the others on the theme. But I also know you do not want to change them.
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RE: For the Club - 7/1/2002 12:32:37
Scott,
The left nav buttons only appear on pages with children. When you are at the bottom of the food chain, there is no more!
Tom,
My hard drive self-destructed last week also. I bought a new on, and had to reinstall everything. I back up all data to a second hard drive on a second computer, so not all was lost! But, it is agravating!
The old hard drive has been set to all zeros without error, a thorough scan indicated no errors, yet I can' t write large files (i.e. backup of My documents) to it with out error.
The second hard drive on the computer that I am now is seven years old. It is where my back up for the other computer resides. Go figure...
At last count, 18 club member' s have had hard drive failures in the past six months. 16 were replaced under warranty! The manufacturers must be getting the message that their quality control is not!
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RE: For the Club - 7/18/2002 21:48:54
Just a followup on my inability to backup to the old hard drive mentioned in my June 30 post.
The OS is W2k. We didn' t change the Fat 32 to NTFS format. To place files larger than 4GB, it must be NTFS. Easy job, I just moved the small backup files to the C: drive, reformatted to NTFS and move the files back. My current backup from the XP system is 6.2GB.
Similar operation on the XP system the second drive is now NTFS and it receives the backup from the W2k system.
Another operational note, the anti-virus programs scans both drives every four hours. I continue to work while it scans.
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RE: For the Club - 7/30/2002 13:27:11
Folks,
I have made many revisions to the site. http://www.myscacc.org/
Please take another crack at it.
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I think it looks good. The newsletter opened up ok for me too. It' s obvious you' ve put a lot of work into it. My only thought would be to ditch the FP template when you have the time.
